[Noggin Noms]: Modular/Celestia vs. Monolithic/Solana

Welcome to Noggin Noms: A Linkable Notebook of My Annotative Reads & Listens

I’m really amazed by the quality of Youtube talks from various conferences & podcasts. The content is so good (and DENSE) that I’ve been taking notes for better retention - might as well share with y’all so you can save some time.

Going forward I will try to share more TLDR from these podcasts & Youtube talks as I consume & synthesize - frequency obviously depends on my bandwidth. Notes are entirely drawn down from the videos/audios and none is my personal opinion.

Today’s talk is from Modular Summit 2022, titled “Modular or Monolithic - Mustafa Al-Bassam and Anatoly Yakovenko,” where Mustafa from Celestia and Anatoly from Solana had an interesting debate over the design philosophies around modular vs. monolithic.

Notes are raw as I type & listen, so please excuse any typos.